Tag: cookies
UK consumers leaked 14 million internet cookies onto dark web, survey reveals
14 million internet browser cookies linked to UK consumers have been leaked on the dark web, a new study conducted from cybersecurity company NordVPN reveals. More than 54 billion cookies worldwide were found to have been leaked on the dark web according to the latest research which found cookies belonging to people in 244 countries.…
1 in 3 Brits rarely or never read Ts and Cs online
A poll of 2,000 UK adults found more than one in three (36 per cent) admit to rarely or never reading Ts and Cs online before accepting them. And of those who do, 38 per cent spend a mere 30 seconds or less scanning through. Nearly a third (31 per cent) simply can’t be bothered…
REVEALED: Top 20 companies which collect most data
In light of Google pushing its Chrome cookie ban to 2023, a brand new study by pCloud has researched the websites with the most cross-site trackers to analyse which popular businesses are tracking you. When you browse from website to website, cross-site trackers follow you, collecting data on where you’ve been and what you’ve done. This…
Apps with UDID access getting cold shoulder from Apple
Developers whose apps request an Apple device's Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) are increasingly finding their work rejected by the Cupertino tech firm, who are tightening access allowances for dev teams following growing privacy concerns. Apple warned that the change…
Facebook in cookie tracking row once more
Facebook have come under fire from a German watchdog group following allegations that the world's largest social network aer using cookies to create tracking profiles of users without their consent, allowing the network to keep tabs on a user's web-browsing…
